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Toni Petersen

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Ongoing American project, belonging to the Getty Art History Information Program (AHIP), intended as the first comprehensive thesaurus for the fields of art and architecture. Its aims are to promote consistency and compatibility among art-historical databases by providing a standardized, controlled vocabulary for use in bibliographic and visual databases and in the documentation of object collections. The AAT’s terminology, arranged both alphabetically and hierarchically by concept, reflects the ‘common usage’ of scholars and cataloguers. Advisory boards composed of experts in the fields of architecture, decorative and fine arts, along with archivists and information managers in these fields, have reviewed and approved terminology for inclusion in the thesaurus....

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Active in the early years of the 17th century; cited by Charles Le Blanc. The monogram is believed to have been used initially by Abraham Bosse. It is found on an item entitled Theatre of Tabarin depicting Tabarin standing on stage and addressing a large audience....